REGRET OR RE-GREAT

HELLO READERS, There is a quote that goes like " regret is the most painful thing, you will ever experience, not because of the things you lost but because of the things you never tried to achieve" Regret is a nagging feeling- that you should have done better or a sting of bitter thoughts that you are not enough!!

Trust me, after putting in so much effort and endless sleepless nights of self doubt, I have realized what if this path of regret is turning you into someone greater. We, as students often carry this burden of expectations from our parents, society and most dangerously from ourselves. It's not always about scoring high marks and getting into top colleges. It's about the fear of not doing enough and securing a successful future. This fear slowly turns into an invisible burden of regret-That we tend to carry on this beautiful journey of exploring ourselves. Toxicity arises we ask ourselves questions like ' WHAT IF I AM NOT ENOUGH', 'MAYBE I DON'T DESERVE THIS' etc. But if we try look deeper beneath the heaviness of guilt and expectations, we can find a way to turn regret into something far more powerful.

Try to take regret as RE-GREAT because regret lead to possibilities not limitations. Imagine if you miss an opportunity to excel try to take it as a sign to do better rather than deep diving into your strangled thoughts which lead you to nowhere but self doubt. 

THE "What If" trap: If you are someone like me, who have fallen into 'what if' trap more times we would like to admit. "what if I had spent more time studying"? " what if I had start preparing for it earlier"? the most common thing that we often tend to ignore is that all of these questions are rooted into past, and as the universe says, past is something we can never change. but what we can actually change is "WHAT IF" TO "WHAT NOW'

Try with small changes like read a book you were supposed to read last week but because of procrastination you failed to do so. Try to change this worthless questions of regret into room for new possibilities. So instead of saying, 'Why didn't I do better" start asking " Why am I not doing better now"? Rather than spiraling into regret. Let that feeling teach you what are you doing now?

From one of my favorite Bollywood movie 3 Idiots, There was a protagonist of the film Farhan, a boy doing Mechanical Engineering from one of the top colleges under parents and societal pressure. He is a boy who hates what he does. His regret? Never having the courage to speak for himself and pursue his passion of Wildlife Photography as a career- where he truly belonged. But once with the correct support he fights his inner demons and confronts his regrets and take a leap of faith and rewrites his destiny.

' In the ashes of regret, there lies a hidden fire,

A spark that one ignited, burns higher and higher,

So  let your regrets turn into ember, not your defeat,

And turn every " I should have "into something RE-GREAT'

                                                   [ poem by- chat gpt along with my personalized touch]

AVNI SINGLA